Link Details

My post about Ruby 1.9’s impressive improvement over Ruby 1.8.6 created quite an echo within the developer community. Sure, the headline was an attention grabber, just like this one is :-P, but in a matter of a few hours, there were all sorts of blog entries with variants in many languages, more than 200 comments on Reddit, and fifty comments on my own blog. There were however, also a few misconceptions. It was great though because such a simple post generated a lot of discussion amongst developers, with some insightful arguments taking place - and besides it almost created a new meme with the whole “holy shmoly” thing. Fun as that certainly was, let’s try to summarize and clarify a few points.